Auren had heard even slavery was common in all five regions — the lord who won the raid could ask for men, and the losing lord would have to provide them legally.
They were mostly prisoners and lower-class object summoners, but who was going to check each slave's individual history? Anyone who stood against the lord was simply considered a 'criminal.' The large number of bandits in the five regions was not without reason.
Auren changed from his swordsmanship practice to his daily shapeshifting practice after a few hours. He had practically mastered the changes in shapes he could make by now—there wasn't much left to do in that either. But with his new black particles summon being useless, Auren had shifted his focus to using the excess Chi to somehow lift his black particles from the ground.
